Directors’ Fortnight, the independent non-competitive sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, announced this morning the lineup for its 56th edition, which includes four South American titles—three feature films and one short film from Argentina, Brazil, and Chile—in its selection of 21 films.
In his presentation, Julien Rejl, Artistic Director of Directors’ Fortnight said that “Latin American cinema in particular has shown a vitality, a singularity, an energy without equivalents.” He also sent a special message of “solidarity” with Argentine cinema, which is “in danger” as a result of the crisis and the economic policies of the Government of Javier Milei.
The Argentine selection is composed by Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed / Algo viejo, algo nuevo, algo prestado, the latest film by Hernán Roselli (Mauro) which tells the story of a family in which the father disappears and the mother and daughter take family matters into their hands; and the short film Our Own Shadow / Nuestra sombra by Agustina Sánchez Gavier.
Brazilian directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha will premiere their documentary feature The Falling Sky / A queda do céu / La Chute du ciel, based on a book by Bruce Albert and Davi Kopenawa Yanomami of the same name as the film, which collects the words of Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman and philosopher, and Albert, a French anthropologist born in Morocco. The title of the book refers to the belief of the Yanomami people that after the death of the last shaman, no one will be left to hold up the sky, so it will fall to the earth.
And the Chilean directorial duo of Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña will world premiere their second feature film The Hyperboreans / Los hiperbóreos, which combines stop-motion animation, puppets, theater, science fiction, and false biopic to delirious effects.
The 56th edition of Directors’ Fortnight will take place May 15-25 in Cannes.
